Making with Meaning - Day 4

I'm glad to say, another very successful day.

Caroline suggested drawing round the car seat parts on tracing paper, and trying out the spacing on overlays on the concertina, before actually drawing on it.  She was right.  I bought some carbon paper from the shop, and it gave the right industrial feel to the work. I decided to work in multiples of 10, half a shift's work.  I put the individual pieces stacked, more or less together.

Left hand side of car seat surround

Top of car seat surround

Right hand side of car seat surround

Centre panel of seat

Then I decided to draw the seat pieces in the order they would have been joined.

Top and right hand side

Left, right and top sections joined

Top, left, right, centre panels joined, with top stitching 

Whole car seat, with quilting on centre panel.

I am pleased with this.  A good starting point for my artwork.

I think the words I wrote in Caroline's 4 categories are useful.  I will come back to them.

Process

Overwritten
Fast
Repetition
Skilled
Machine Operators
Manual Work
Stitch
Overlock
Pushing
Forward movement

Ingredients

1968\1984
Repetition
Banging them out
Piecework
Day-Night
Dagenham
Production
Deceit
Hidden
Concealment
Grading
Equal Pay

Quality

Robust
Tough
Energetic
Accurate
Hard for Workers
Soft for Customer

Display

Ordered?
Not sure about this one.
Display always leaves me confused and feeling incompetent

Other ideas from the class:

- Try mark making from different grades - unskilled B and skilled C
- Trade Union banners.  How would I make one for this subject?
- Look at Tate Modern - Margaret Harrison, Mary Kelly and ... Women's timesheets
- Sometimes the text becomes the title of the work.
- Concertina sketchbook.  Two sides of the same story -
    Management -v- union
     Women -v- men
     Women -v- union.